Japan's Non-Melting Ice Cream Makes About as Much Sense as Anything Else

If you told me a year ago that I'd witness a White House press conference in which a Presidential representative actuallied the Statue of Liberty, I would have laughed in your face. But if 2017 has taught us anything it's that nothing is impossible. So I welcome Japan's non-melting ice cream with open arms.

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Japan's Biotherapy Development Research Centre has reportedly created ice cream that doesn't melt by adding polyphenol, a liquid extracted from strawberries, to cream. "Polyphenol liquid has properties to make it difficult for water and oil to separate so that a popsicle containing it will be able to retain the original shape of the cream for a longer time than usual and be hard to melt," developer Tomihisa Ota of Kanazawa University told Asahi.

Apparently the ice cream, sold at Kanazawa Ice, retained its shape even after five minutes of being blasted by a hair dryer. What's more, it stayed cool. Eventually it melts, but it won't be running down your hand the second you take it outside on a hot day.

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Great! Why not! Life literally cannot get any weirder (she says, tempting fate). I'm just glad this innovation came just in time for the planet to be heating up at alarming rates. Longer ice cream season for everyone!